- Brief description
- Cigar case with gilt frame and monogram used by Charles Dickens
- Label
- This monogrammed cigar box was given to Dickens before he left on his trip to North America in 1846. Dickens was fond of cigars, particularly Cuban cigars, which would have been slightly unusual in America where the most common forms of tobacco were pipe-smoking and chewing (which Dickens found disgusting). After Dickens's death, Georgina Hogarth gifted the case to Dickens's doctor, Frank Beard.
- Collection
- object
- Object number
- DH372
- Object type
- cigar case
- Inscription content
- A Souvenir of Happy Memories
Rustling above the dusty growth of years
COME back REEN LEAVES of yesterday
A thought from Nicholas Nickleby
Ch. 49 - Inscription description
- The inscription is engraved on a metal plate which is attached to the reverse side of the case.
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